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2016-11-09 - Beküldte DeX77

After bumping the toolchain to gcc6 we had some trouble building some of the larger packages for i686. Since every dev is using x86_64 and the
number of users still on i686 arch seems quite low, the decision to drop i686 completely was made.
This raised the need to switch the lib32-extra packages - used mainly by steam and wine - that where build by stripping the i686 packages in the past,
to a different buildsystem. crazy was so kind to establish a full multilib toolchain for that and some scheme (cross32.sh) so providing two flavors (x86_64 and lib32-extra)
for one package.
This work was merged yesterday and the two mentioned packages still work. If you find any issues feel free to raise some bug in the bugtracker.

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2016-09-30 - Beküldte DeX77

In the last weeks after the release of Frugalware 2.1 crazy went forward and bumped gcc to version 6.2.1. In a concentrated effort all developers
worked in the gcc6 WIP repo and rebuild many packages with the new toolchain.
Yesterday we merged that WIP into current.
If you do your usual "pacman-g2 -Syu" you will be prompted to upgrade pacman-g2 first. Then you will get an error about llvm.
So before doing the pacman-g2 upgrade you have to remove llvm and readd it after:

2016-09-05 - Beküldte DeX77

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 2.1, our twentyfirst stable release.
Important notice: Frugalware provided a -stable and -current tree in the past. As our team shrinked quite a bit lately we lack the manpower to continue providing a,
secure and stable tree while provding bleeding edge and latest package in another. Therefore we decided to move all users to the -current tree.
For users not wanting that we will provide a static, not updated snapshot of the -current tree each time we do a release.
We also plan to release more often so this snapshots get updated faster.
Here are the most important changes since 2.0 in no particular order:

Package updates:

Linux kernel 4.7.2

Xorg server 1.18.4

Mesa 12.0.1

KDE (Plasma) 5.7.3

GNOME 3.20.2

LibreOffice 5.2.1.2

Mozilla Firefox 48.0.2

Chromium browser 52.0.2743.116

Please refer to the Frugalware Derowd ChangeLog for more information.
We no longer provide i686 ISOs but will continue to provide i686 packages, because they are also needed for lib32-extra packages on x86_64.
Download for x86_64: See our mirror list. Don't forget to check the integrity of the install images before burning!
If you are upgrading to Derowd from our previous stable release (Rigel), please read the upgrade part of our documentation.

2015-02-16 - Beküldte ryuo

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 2.0, our twentieth stable release.
No new features have been added since 2.0rc2. If you didn't follow the changes during the rc releases, here are the most important changes since 1.9 in no particular order:

Package updates:

Linux kernel 3.14.19

Xorg server 1.15.2

KDE 4.14.3

GNOME 3.12.2

Xfce 4.10.1

LXDE 0.99.0

LibreOffice 4.3.3.2

Mozilla Firefox 35.0.1

Chromium browser 39.0.2171.96

New features:

MATE 1.8.1

Please refer to the Frugalware Rigel ChangeLog for more information.
Download for i686 and x86_64: See our mirror list. Don't forget to check the integrity of the install images before burning!
If you are upgrading to Rigel from our previous stable release (Arcturus), please read the upgrade part of our documentation.